Ruby on Rails maintained by Metronet
My recent experience of Ruby on Rails has been negative on several fronts. Despite adopting a funky image it is a poor pretender of LAMP. It is also one of the languages that attracts developers who dont want to develop – they want everything on a fast track. This is all well and good when [...]
The Bad Code Spotter’s Guide
InformIT: The Bad Code Spotter’s Guide > Poor Commenting In an age when applications have to be developed yesterday, bad coding is common – even more so in web applications, mainly due to forgiving nature of browsers and increase in number is budget level development environment (LAMP, Ruby on Rails …). Bad code is quick [...]
A little more positivity
Struggling to write more positive posts, but mind been distracted elsewhere. Consultant work has been dominating my life more than I want to, which has left me little time to explore what’s out there.  A little late, but discovering the joys of facebook, a far superior myspace alternative.  What I like about facebook [...]
www 1.0 – 4.0
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily [...]
